FRESH NEWS FROM MONTENEGRO
Montenegro: camps, cars and other news
October 9, 2009
Here is a report from Vladimir and Marijana Cizmanski;
Vladimir is the pastor of the Brethren Assembly in
Podgorica, Montenegro. Stoneworks missionary
Christina Melton will go there on October 20 for a three-
year commitment to serve the church.
And this is my prayer, that your love may abound more
and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you
may be able to discern that is best and may be pure and
blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of
righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - to the
glory and praise of God.
Philippians 1:9-11
Dear Fellow-workers,
We want to report on the teen camp we had this summer.
We know that intercessory prayer is a vital factor in many
aspects of our work and in bringing about changed lives.
This time we had 15 participants - 11 from Podgorica and
4 from Niksic. We are thankful to the group of 8, from
Stoneworks, who came from the USA to assist us with their
presence, lectures and practical help in running this very
important event.
The camp took place in the mountains as last year.
Unlike the previous group, these teenagers knew each
other as they had already been attending our Saturday
children’s clubs. We can see that as a result of this on-
going work with them the Word of God has penetrated
into their young hearts and had a significant impact on
their young lives.
The theme of the camp was “How to take the right
decisions.” One of the subjects was: “What would Jesus
do in my place?”
During the day two girls got into an argument and when I
approached one of them and talked to her about the
problem she asked: “What would Jesus do in my place?”
Without waiting for me to say anything she replied: “I
know, He would forgive, but that’s very tough!” This
disguised a second question: It’s not easy to forgive - it’s
painful and costly.
But we still talked about the decision to forgive and about
how it is not a question of our feelings but our will. There
were lots of opportunities to get to know each other
better, to chat, for spontaneous teaching and sporting
activities.
Another girl lost a pendant in the shape of a silver heart.
It meant a great deal to her as it was a present from her
mother. We thought she must have lost it in the
mountains when we had walked up to a viewpoint
overlooking the river Tara. So we all set out to look for it
in the bushes, grass, brambles and rocks beside the
narrow mountain track.
There was very little chance that we would really find that
little silver heart. On top of that, evening was beginning
to set in. Helena was crying and there was no help for it,
none of us 15 had found the heart.
When we got back to our house Helena brightened up
and said: “I am not worried about the heart any more as I
have seen that I have friends who are prepared to come
to my aid. That is much more important to me than the
heart.”
We all agreed with her and praised her for her mature
attitude.
But God had a surprise for us: Read More at, http://www.
stoneworksinternational.com/news-from-
montenegro/#more-994
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